Sunday, November 28, 2004
Zell Miller is a liberal! That's what you'd have to believe if you lived in George Will Land. In another absurd essay, Academia, Stuck To the Left, Will writes: The great secret is out: Liberals dominate campuses.
But we essentially knew this even before the American Enterprise magazine reported in 2002 on examinations of voting records in various college communities. Some findings about professors registered with the two major parties or with liberal or conservative minor parties:
Cornell: 166 liberals, 6 conservatives.
Stanford: 151 liberals, 17 conservatives.
Colorado: 116 liberals, 5 conservatives.
UCLA: 141 liberals, 9 conservatives. How did the American Enterprise magazine do the classification? Read the story from their September 2002 edition: (emp add) Those who registered themselves in either the Democratic, Green, or Working Families Party we classified as members of a party of the Left – they are coded “L” in red in the results below.
Those registered in either the Republican or Libertarian Party we classified as members of a party of the Right – they are coded “R” in blue in the results below.
posted by Quiddity at 11/28/2004 08:00:00 AM
5 comments
In a way, this is kind of reassuring. Will, after all, is widely regarded as one of the SMART rightists. If he's one of the smart ones ... wow. I bet he gets his shoes on by himself too. Maybe they're labeled "L" and "R"...
Umm... it's a wonder I managed to get a degree from Stanford if, as the original AEI data would seem to suggest, there are only 168 professors on campus. However, the fact is that there are some 1,000 faculty members in total. Also we happen to have some not-so-shabby programs in computer science, engineering, and natural sciences, but you wouldn't know it from these data.
THanks, Anonymous II, for the explanation and update on faculty levels out there in the Great West.
Myself, reading the vastly over-weighted numbers of Libs vs Cons, would have inferred the obvious: Fascists just basically aren't smart enough to go through 18 years of education in order to teach at a university. (Oh, wait. There is Liberty University in Virginia. Let's say a university with reputable scholastic credentials, hmmmmm?)
Lurch
I did my own poll from the so-called home-schooling colleges. 17 teachers classified themselves as conservatives and only 1 as a liberal. However, upon further investigation, this liberal was found to be a member of the Whig party.
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